Pragmatics and Society

Volume 1, Issue 1 (2010)

2010.  iv, 178pp
Publishing status: Available
Table of Contents
Editorial
Jacob L. Mey, Hartmut Haberland and Kerstin Fischer
1–8
Articles
For a constitutive pragmatics: Obama, Médecins Sans Frontières and the measuring stick
François Cooren and Frédérik Matte
9–31
Stability and variability in linguistic pragmatics
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
32–49
The paradox of communication: Socio-cognitive approach to pragmatics
István Kecskés
50–73
The activity type as interface between langue and parole, and between individual and society: An argument for trichotomy in pragmatics
Gu Yueguo
74–101
School system as axiological medium: The state’s primary macro-proposing context and its expanding moral role in Australia
Philip Graham and Lisa Gunders
102–117
Performance pragmatics, neuroscience and evolution
William O. Beeman
118–137
Pragmatics of intercultural communication: The bounded openness of a contradictory perspective
Dominique Bouchet
138–154
Forum and Debate
155
The pragmatics of learning by doing
Roger C. Schank
157–172
Book review
Review of Abbas & Dervin (2009): Digital Technologies of the Self
Reviewed by Lian-Hee Wee
173–177
Subjects